Johann Gottfried Herder: Selected Early Works, 1764-1767

Johann Gottfried Herder: Selected Early Works, 1764-1767, edited by Ernest A. Menze, provides a vital collection of writings from one of the most influential figures in eighteenth-century European intellectual history. As a philosopher, historian, and literary critic, Herder played a foundational role in the Sturm und Drang movement and served as a mentor to Goethe. This first volume presents his early publications in English, making his transformative ideas accessible to a modern audience of scholars and students of art and philosophy.

This volume includes essential essays such as On the Transformation of Taste, On a History of Lyrical Poetry, and On Recent German Literature. Readers can also examine his thoughts in Fragments of a Treatise on the Ode and On Diligence in the Study of Several Learned Languages. Johann Gottfried Herder: Selected Early Works, 1764-1767, offers a profound look at the development of a universalist thinker through his early academic and literary contributions.